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About GilPress

I'm Managing Partner at gPress, a marketing, publishing, research and education consultancy. Also a Senior Contributor forbes.com/sites/gilpress/. Previously, I held senior marketing and research management positions at NORC, DEC and EMC. Most recently, I was Senior Director, Thought Leadership Marketing at EMC, where I launched the Big Data conversation with the “How Much Information?” study (2000 with UC Berkeley) and the Digital Universe study (2007 with IDC). Twitter: @GilPress

2015 Marketing Technology Landscape (Infographic)–1,876 Companies!

Posted on January 21, 2015 by GilPress

Source: chiefmartec.com Scott Brinker says: Even I was surprised that the number of vendors nearly doubled from last year’s edition, which charted an already-staggering 947 companies… My intention with this graphic is to visually demonstrate four points: Marketing has unquestionably … Continue reading →

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The Simple Pictures Artificial Intelligence Still Can’t Recognize

Posted on January 19, 2015 by GilPress

Wired: Earlier this month, Clune discussed these findings with fellow researchers at the Neural Information Processing Systems conference in Montreal. The event brought together some of the brightest thinkers working in artificial intelligence. The reactions sorted into two rough groups. … Continue reading →

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How People Ignored Each Other Before Smartphones

Posted on January 19, 2015 by GilPress

  Source: @SBartner  

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What IoT Products Consumers Want (Infographic)

Posted on January 19, 2015 by GilPress

VB reports: The tech world is abuzz with interesting possibilities for the Internet of Things (IoT) lately, but regular folks haven’t caught up yet. Why the enthusiasm gap? That’s the question that Affinnova, a Nielsen company, set out to answer … Continue reading →

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Man to Lamp Post: You Talkin’ To Me?

Posted on January 14, 2015 by GilPress

The installed base for ‘smart’ street light luminaires is set to grow rapidly, with network controlled nodes set to rise from 2 million today to 40 million by 2019–ABI Research

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What Data Scientists Do

Posted on January 13, 2015 by GilPress

  Source: siliconrepublic

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3 Surprising Digital Bets for 2015 (Infographic)

Posted on January 13, 2015 by GilPress
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The Cost of a Data Breach Increased 40% from 2012 to 2014

Posted on January 5, 2015 by GilPress
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2015 Predictions for the Big Data Analytics Market

Posted on January 2, 2015 by GilPress

The big data and analytics market will reach $125 billion worldwide in 2015, according to IDC. Both IDC and The International Institute of Analytics (IIA) discussed their big data and analytics predictions for 2015 in separate webcasts last month. Here are … Continue reading →

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Top 2015 Technology Predictions from IDC

Posted on December 15, 2014 by GilPress

In a recent webcast (and accompanying report), IDC issued its top 10 predictions for 2015. IDC’s Frank Gens advised companies in all industries to “Amazon” themselves, but also predicted that the best job of “Amazoning” will be done by Amazon itself. … Continue reading →

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